US DOJ — 2016 Bitfinex Hack Proceeds Seizure
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In August 2016 roughly 120,000 BTC was taken from the exchange Bitfinex. In February 2022 the US Department of Justice announced it had seized about 94,643 BTC of the stolen funds in connection with a money-laundering prosecution, describing it at the time as its largest financial seizure. The recovered coins were consolidated into a government-controlled address that has received across 183 outputs and never spent. A US court subsequently ordered the recovered property returned to Bitfinex.
What is and is not established. The DOJ press materials retrieved in this session state the amount and date but do not publish the custody addresses. Both addresses here come from third-party labelling services (Spark, BitInfoCharts) and are corroborated only by an on-chain match to the announced figure and date: 94,643.49 BTC funded on 1 February 2022, never spent. Treat this as attribution, not disclosure. The individuals convicted in the underlying case are not named on the entity page.
Address
bc1qazcm763858nkj2dj986etajv6wquslv8uxwczt
Era
2016–2022
Sources
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Genesis Block Coinbase (Block 0)
Patoshi-Pattern Early Mining Set (2009-2010)
Hal Finney — Recipient of the First Bitcoin Transaction (Block 170)
The Bitcoin Faucet (2010) — Published Donation Address
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OKX (formerly OKEx)
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